Kathleen Stirling Scrymgour

Kathleen Stirling Scrymgour OBE (2 May 1895 – 4 February 1982) was an Australian hospital matron. She was a founding member, President and fellow of what became the Royal College of Nursing in Melbourne.

Life Scrymgour was born in the Adelaide suburb of Malvern in 1895. Her parents were Amelia (born Trigg) and a printer named Bernard Vincent Scrymgour. She was their second child and they had another three. She trained as a nurse at Adelaide Hospital from 1917

Thanks to a Florence Nightingale scholarship she went to the UK in 1935 where she studied at Bedford College in London. She returned the following year Because of this she became the hospital's first assistant tutor sister who had a qualification to do the job. In 1943 she became the assistant matron. Scrymgour became her successor.

Scrymgour died in 1988 in Northfield, a suburb of Adelaide.